Archive for April, 2007

Amazing week of events, exhibitions, performances, meetings and parties is really evidence to say “The city of design is Milan”. During the design weekthe meetings, spread like constellations across the accustomed areas of the city. Every year Salone del mobile held in Fiera , always surprised us. This year, like last one new space of Fiera di Rho Pero welcome us under the great sail designed byMassimiliano Fuksas, in the wonderful pavilionsand in the various meeting places . More then 2500 exhibitionsfrom the country and the world on the Salone del mobile gave us a new view the developing of design. On the other hand , Fuori salone with 360 events trough the town , in the different zones, gave the visitors special impression of the life in Milan during the legendary week.

We say “about” ten years, because actually a date which can certify the birth of blog does not exist. And, therefore, neither a true anniversary you allow us to celebrate a tenth anniversary does not exist.

There are many, more in USA who try to define what with exactness has been the first true and real blog, that is the first diary online and the form of a blog has taken. Some have identified date first of april 1997, when Dave Winer threw Sripting News, www.scripting.com blog which anchors today continues with honour his activity. Others think that the first has been John Barger and it started putting his comments on Wisdom Robot, www.robotwisdom.com on December 17th, 1997. But other think that everything is still begun before, as New York Times points out, that the father www.links.net/vita/web/start defines Justin Hall founder of the personal blogging, begun to his say in 1994.

Then, it is not interesting, all added, to know whether there is a date, because actually blogging structured about the end some years ninety, but in some way he has always existed. Since the beginning the personal pages were at the end some diaries, the forums were some collective debate spaces, bulletin board and the Fidonet were even existing before someone tried to imagine World Wide Web. Therefore it would be quietly possible to say that precursors of blog have arisen before the net itself.